Posts by Russell Brown
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I decided that I'd be derelict as a Wikipedia editor if I didn't tidy up the article. But for posterity, the line removed from the bottom of the article was:
Also-Well known New Zealand gay code word for male sperm, as in "I bet he supps the Whale Oil on the quiet"
Heh.
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Some good kiwi scoping coming up soon - old fashioned splatter in "Black Sheep" (it will be awesome), & "Eagle vs. Shark".
Exciting times & no wetas in sight!I was interested in the buzz for 'The Devil Dared Me To' from non-target audiences after both Great Blends. I think it helped that people had the context of the BOTY career before we gave them a glimpse of the debut feature film, with its nod to, um, Vincent Ward and stuff. Dammit, Ant Timpson should fly me to the South By SouthWest Screening in Austin ...
Swinging over to television now, who wants to bet that "Flight of the Concordes" features prominently in the next Golden Globes??????????
If they just get another series they're on a winner. Worry about higher honours then.
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What he said. I think if we tolerate unmitigated cant recycled by mindless partisans and back out when we get accused of calling troll, we deserve what we get. It's not a left right thing, it's an I can think for myself thing and respond if I want, it's MY bosses bandwidth you hoggin'.
Yeah, but you can shred someone's sources and demolish their argument without calling them a name. It's better that way. The more abusive Kiwiblog threads start to become interchangeable after a while: same shit, different topic ...
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In clarification and by way of explanation, I've done a little research because the word I intended to use was hynie.
I guess I could have cleaned it all up with my mighty editing privileges, but it went an interesting place, so whatever. I've always liked the look of Heeb magazine:
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What are the sides in the Hero debate? Het/homo? Dom/sub? In/out?
On past form, there's my side and the side that's adjudged to have won. Bah, mumble, etc ...
I do actually enjoy speaking for gay audiences - you really get full value for your jokes. It helps if the jokes are dirty, of course.
MOOT IS: That "wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others" .... Oscar Wilde
Affirmative team is:
Lianne Dalziel
Steven Gray
Charles ChauvelNegative team is:
Chris Carter
Russell Brown
Jeremy Lambert -
You are right Russell, I was a bit over the top, got annoyed at people threatening Phil.
Aw yeah, but you didn't run off and make a whole new blog thread for you and your creepy mates to bellow lame-ass threats of physical violence.
It is sort of amusing seeing Mr Oil, a well-fed Auckland Grammar boy if the truth be known, coming on like some sort of horny-handed enforcer in a "working man's pub" though, isn't it?
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Anyone else seen this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_oilI can't possibly approve of such a use of Wikipedia, but that's priceless.
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I am now staring to see Kiwiblogger types in the street, in cars, in shops, I see them everywhere....I need help.
Click that link in my comment above (thanks to Che for drawing my attention to it) - it's somehow tragic and somehow hilarious. The lefty trolls who did the provoking should know better, but what happened next is ... bizarre.
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that said, lets tone down the anti-troll rhetoric, or RB will get grumpy. this isn't kiwiblog.
But let's not be calling James a troll. I disagree with pretty much everything he says, but he turns up and makes a case.
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Possibly, but the antiwar guy reports that no such claim was made - I presume that includes verbally. But then he doen't say if he attended the briefing. So again a bit frustrating.
The Washington Post isn't in any doubt:
Asked about the "highest levels" charge, Burns replied: "The president . . . did not claim that today. We are not claiming that today."
That was precisely what the military asserted in its Baghdad briefing for reporters Sunday, a secretive session in which no cameras or tape recorders were allowed and no names were given for the speakers.
The charge was that Tehran's operatives were supplying explosive devices to Iraqi Shiites who are killing U.S. troops. Proof was laid out on a table: Iranian-made weapons and copies of false identity cards found on captured agents said to be members of the Quds Force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
"The Quds Force," a senior defense analyst then explained, "on paper reports to the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. In reality, they really report directly to the supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "So the activities that the IRGC Quds Force are conducting in Iraq, we assess, are coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government."
Then this:
Controversy grew Monday over reports that the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, had told reporters in Australia that while he knew the weapons were Iranian-made, "I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit."
Frantic telephone calls from Washington to Pace's traveling party ensued. Snow and his counterpart at the State Department, Sean McCormack, were pummeled in daily briefings and directed questions to the Pentagon.
On Tuesday, even as Snow told reporters in Washington he had spoken with Pace and they were on the same page, the general reiterated his view. The discovery of the explosives, Pace said during a news conference in Jakarta, "could not translate to the Iranian government per se is directly involved in doing this."
Again Neil, your determination to extend the benefit of the doubt is touching, but 'cmon ...
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